Document Review On-Shoring
I had been thinking about how many document review centers had sprung up in Houston lately when the Posse List came up with this post about on-shore document reviews.
In my comment to the post, I noted that I now know of at least 6 document review centers in Houston, 3 of which have been set up since last summer.
As far as I can tell, not all of the review centers have been particularly active this fall. One with no business since September, one with no business since July, one with a trickle of business (7 attorneys) through the whole fall ’till January when they picked up another 14 for 2 additional reviews.
A couple of in-house reviews seem to be holding up pretty well, but there appears to still be excess capacity in the review centers which bothers me because it means downward pressure on the hourly rates as the centers compete for business. This has started showing up and I’d love to hear any additional input on this from the Houston area.
February 21st, 2009 at 09:15
We have an “across Texas” guide to hourly rates (based on Posse List member feedback) which we’ll share with you. We are posting a follow-up to our onshore article: a guide to hourly rates across the country. We’ll follow-up later in the weekend.